310 search results for “middle eastern literary” in the Library website
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Middle Eastern Library
The Middle Eastern Library is located on the ground floor of the new Herta Mohr Building at Witte Singel.
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Middle Eastern Special Collections
The Middle Eastern Special Collections form the nucleus of the entire range of Oriental heritage collections of Leiden University Libraries.
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Middle Eastern Studies
Overview of databases, reference works and websites for research in Middle Eastern Studies
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Shahab DaneshvarFaculty of Humanities
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Léon BuskensFaculty of Humanities
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Maria RiepFaculty of Archaeology
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Film and Literary Studies
Overview of databases, reference works and websites for research in Film and Literary Studies
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Shuqi JiaFaculty of Humanities
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Crystal EnnisFaculty of Humanities
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Noise due to Evening of the Middle Eastern Collections and Middle Eastern Library
Education, Facility, Library, Research, Social
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Discover Leiden University's new Middle Eastern Library and take a closer look at our Middle Eastern collections
An evening program in the University Library and Middle Eastern Library in Leiden for everyone who has something to do with the Middle East; from Tajikistan to the Mahreb and from Istanbul to Sanaa. View the oldest books and clay tablets from the collection and listen to the most fascinating stories…
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Digitised Leiden Middle Eastern collections available in Digital Collections
More than 2000 objects from the Middle Eastern collection at Leiden University Libraries (UBL) have been made available online through Digital Collections. These collections mostly consist of written works in Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Hebrew, Aramaic, and Syriac, but also contain printed works and the…
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Jamaseb SoltaniFaculty of Humanities
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Construction of Middle Eastern Library in Final Phase
Library
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Mineke Schipper-de LeeuwFaculty of Humanities
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Jelle BruningFaculty of Humanities
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Peter WebbFaculty of Humanities
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Christian HendersonFaculty of Humanities
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Lidewij van de PeutFaculty of Humanities
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Scores of visitors attend open evening at new Middle Eastern Library
Over 200 people paid their first visit to the new Middle Eastern Library on a special open evening. As well as exploring the library, they got to see exhibitions, speed lectures and premieres about Leiden University’s Middle Eastern collections.
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Lecture series Treasures from the Middle Eastern Manuscript Collections and their Wealth of Knowledge
Persian stories with beautiful miniatures, letters on papyrus from Egyptian traders and medicinal manuscripts translated from Greek and edited in Arabic. Studium Generale organizes a lecture series on the world-famous manuscripts from the Middle East collection of Leiden University Libraries (UBL).…
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New phase for Middle Eastern Library: key handover to Herta Mohr building
Library
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Podcast: this is how you create a dictionary for an unknown Middle Eastern language
Leiden scholars succeeded in making Arabic accessible to Western academic communities as early as the sixteenth century. But how did they approach this problem?
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mat ImmerzeelFaculty of Humanities
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Earliest Middle Eastern Manuscript Collections in Leiden Now Available in Open Access
Several of the most important manuscript collections in the Leiden University Libraries (UBL) Special Collections, comprising 443 extremely rare and often unique volumes, have been made available in Open Access via Digital Collections. The available manuscript collections include the private collections…
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Marina CalculliFaculty of Humanities
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Ernst van AlphenFaculty of Humanities
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Literary Leiden
Quietly read a book in our new reading nook, listen to interesting and bizarre stories set in early twentieth-century Leiden, walk past literary locations in Leiden and watch the best film adapted from a Leiden novel as decided on by you. April is Literary Leiden month! A month in which we pay special…
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Zahra AzharFaculty of Humanities
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Rachel Beckles WillsonFaculty of Humanities
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Tsolin NalbantianFaculty of Humanities
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Deniz TatFaculty of Humanities
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Onur AdaFaculty of Humanities
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Ugur DerinFaculty of Humanities
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Valentina AzzaràFaculty of Archaeology
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Erik-jan ZurcherFaculty of Humanities
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Literary Leiden - the reading list
Leiden fulfills a special role in Dutch literature: as a setting for stories as well as a place of work and residence for leading authors. It is the city described by Willem Bilderdijk as "O Leiden, Flower of Cities," but depicted far less glamorously by F. Bordewijk. The same city where Boudewijn Büch…
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Modern Literature from the Middle East - The Reading List
The Middle East has a rich literary tradition, which is steadily gaining a foothold in the West. Modern literary works deal with contemporary issues, such as the legacy of colonialism, the struggles between traditionalism and modernity, the place of women in society and the war in Israel/Palestine.
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Evening of the Middle Eastern Collections & Middle Eastern Library
Arts and culture
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Eli van DuijnenFaculty of Humanities
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Petra SijpesteijnFaculty of Humanities
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Uncatalogued materials from the Middle East now available through Leiden University Libraries’ catalogue
A collection of uncatalogued books from the Middle East is now available through the Leiden University Libraries’ (UBL) catalogue. The collection contains over 12,000 books mainly written in Arabic, but also in multiple other languages from the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia, including Persian,…
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Alp YenenFaculty of Humanities
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Jan Meijer
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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Hirad RezaiejooFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Hossam AhmedFaculty of Humanities
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Stereotypes and Misconceptions about the Middle East - The Reading List
The perception of the Middle East is riddled with stereotypes that have had dire consequences on its people. What is myth and what is reality? How did these stereotypes come about? What consequences have they had? All of these questions and more are answered within this reading list.
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Exhibition Early Photography of the Middle East
From Persia and Arabia to North Africa: as early as the nineteenth century, there were Dutch people who used the camera themselves in various regions of the Middle East.
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dating back thousands of years moved: ‘From receipts to the oldest literary works’
How do you move 3,000 fragile clay tablets that date back thousands of years? This was the challenge faced by staff from the Netherlands Institute for the Near East (NINO). After years of preparation, the Liagre Böhl collection has been moved on trolleys to its new home.